MegaWatt Solar™

MegaWatt Solar brings together a team experienced in electric power control systems, optical tracking systems, and solar cell production. This alliance allows us to produce a system that conforms to the relevant IEEE and UL standards for grid-connected systems, and which is interoperable with power industry control systems. Our system can be installed and maintained by utility company personnel using standard equipment on existing utility land. System can be grid-ready in only three months.

Not just another PV design

Compared to traditional photovoltaic and other concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) designs, our technology offers several competitive advantages:

Easily upgradeable and cost-competitive CPV design

• Optimized for low cost over industry-leading 50-year life-cycle
• Modular receiver readily and inexpensively upgradable to take advantage of advances in cell technology output
• Increased output reduces cost per watt
• Minimal end of life environmental impact

Designed to maximize uptime

• 20-year mean-time-between-failure
• 15-minute mean-time-to-repair
• 50-year+ service life
• 80% reusable infrastructure
• Receivers/PV cells ~ 20% of cost
• Low maintenance

Built to today's standards and tomorrow's technology

• SCADA-ready control system
• Upgradeable to triple junction cells

Unique friction drive

• More forgiving in difficult environmental conditions than standard geared or hydraulic systems
• Requires fewer/shorter maintenance cycles

Inexpensive composite reflector panels

• Lighter, more durable than conventional glass
• Easier to transport and install

Flexible siting requirements

• Minimal ecological impact
• Not terrain specific